Mainstream vouchers assist non-elderly persons with disabilities. Aside from serving a special population, Mainstream vouchers are administered using the same rules as other housing choice vouchers. Funding and financial reporting for Mainstream vouchers is separate from the regular tenant-based voucher program.
The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) homeownership program allows families that are assisted under the HCV program to use their voucher to buy a home and receive monthly assistance in meeting homeownership expenses.
The State Housing Initiatives Partnership program (SHIP) provides funds to local governments as an incentive to create partnerships that produce and preserve affordable homeownership and multifamily housing.
The Infill Housing Program's main goal is to increase the availability of affordable homes for very-low, low- and moderate-income families. Every dwelling unit developed through the Infill Housing Program must be sold to a qualified household to be used as their primary residence.
>Florida Assist: Offers lower-income borrowers up to $7,500 to assist with down payment and closing costs. This is a deferred second mortgage with no payments and 0% interest that is repaid when the borrower sells or refinances the home, or at the end of the term of their first mortgage.
Infill development can bring many benefits, including financial savings for municipalities, increased property values for residents and businesses, easier travel, reduced pollution, and economic stabilization of neighborhoods.
Many in community development think of infill housing as new houses constructed on vacant, underused lots interspersed among older, existing properties in established urban neighborhoods. However, others broaden the definition to include major refurbishing or reuse of existing homes or buildings.
Unlike greenfield development, which involves constructing new buildings on undeveloped land at the urban periphery, infill development focuses on infusing new life into established neighborhoods, enhancing their vibrancy, and promoting mixed-use, walkable environments.
A laneway suite lives in harmony with the main house on the lot. They share space and infrastructure and work as two parts of a whole. So, while infill houses will always continue to pop up on unique lots in unique circumstances, laneway suites will become ubiquitous appendages to existing homes.
Miami-Dade County's SHIP Local Housing Assistance Plan addresses the housing needs of the very low, low and moderate income households, to expand production of and preserve affordable housing, to further the housing element of the local government comprehensive plan specific to affordable housing.